NOTES: A family means beneficiaries entitled on one worker's account. The data may understate the number of families with dependents because records of awards to dependents made in a different calendar year are not available for inclusion.

Data exclude expedited reinstatement cases; they include beneficiaries whose benefits are being withheld.

a. Benefits awarded before the December cost-of-living increase are converted to the December rates before averages are computed.

b. Includes families and worker-only beneficiaries for whom the primary insurance amount is equal to the family maximum amount.

c. If the spouse is also entitled to a retired-worker benefit, only the benefit amount received as a spouse is included.

NOTES: A family means beneficiaries entitled on one worker's account. The data may understate the number of families with dependents because records of awards to dependents made in a different calendar year are not available for inclusion.

Data exclude expedited reinstatement cases; they include beneficiaries whose benefits are being withheld.

Starting with 2007, age is based on date of entitlement and not date of award. Entitlement can be retroactive and thus precede the date of award.

FRA = full retirement age.

a. Includes spouses aged 62 or older with children.

b. Includes families and worker-only beneficiaries for whom the primary insurance amount is equal to the family maximum amount.